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Yeah Thielbar and the improbable reemergence of Harvey might help you avoid the concept of having to go with Ryan Rolison and Tyler Thornton in the 10th inning on back to back nights (not trying to get into some under the hood conversation here, just saying that was very, very much not the plan), but they aren't going to give you more than 4 innings a week. With the day off Monday, you maybe want to consider calling up a starter for this weekend, ideally as soon as tomorrow. That lets the remaining starters stay on normal rest (or more), and keeps Assad and Brown in their current roles which have become pretty crucial. There wouldn't be a need for another starter after that until next Saturday, which gives you through the off day Monday to figure out if you want to go get someone or move Brown or Assad into that spot.
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Yeah I don’t think there’s anyone available now that can also slot into a playoff top 3. But we probably need someone(s) to soak up some innings here. Wins trump everything else, but this particular winning streak has put some pretty unsustainable strain on the bullpen. Day off Monday, but then it’s straight into Braves/white Sox/brewers for 9 in a row. It’s probably wrong, but the CBS app has brown starting tomorrow and then Taillon Sunday on three days rest, so clearly they have no idea what’s going on. We could use a blowout or two here. Go get a bad pitcher now, then go get a good pitcher in July.
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Robbie Ray is the most boring pickup in the world but, given recent news, go get him now I guess.
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I am not at all a professional athlete but I tore my meniscus (playing with kids on the floor just like him, actually) when I was 32 and the doctor was basically like 'we won't know until we get in there whether we can fix it or just have to remove it. if we fix it, it's significantly more rehab. if we remove it, you'll be at essentially full strength in a month but will have long term issues'. They fixed it and I was going to rehab 3x a week for 6 months.
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Yeah I'm admittedly running into the same problems. A good amount of names that provide a lot more value in being a slightly above average innings eater during the year than they do in October. A few weeks ago I thought we needed to dip into that well to stabilize the rotation but credit to the front office to stacking pitchers of that type and to those pitchers (Rea especially) for stepping up. Skubal is almost a meme at this point, but if you're looking for upside you probably do need to explore the injured/rehabbing pitchers market. For better or for worse that's a constantly evolving group. You could also revamp the bullpen (for the second time this year) and lean on like, Ben Brown/Justin Steele/Wiggins as multiple inning weapons then supplement from there. But need to do something.
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Teams trading away top starters in July of a lost season don't need immediate contributors though, right? There are going to be expiring pitchers, they are going to be expensive, we are very, very good offensively (and very locked in to that group, contract wise), and we are very much lacking starting pitching. Overpay for someone. Hoarding all of Shaw/Ramirez/Rojas/Alcantara because we're scared one of them might, maybe, turn into cheap corner outfield production for another team is not good management of resources.
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I screwed up that last sentence but I was ultimately proven right so yay me
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2024-now xwOBA, EDLC: .331 2024-now xwOBA, our overpaid, glove first SS: .336 (apologies for the impending reverse jinx)
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If you woke up me up from a coma and said that we brought in Ryan Rolison to pitch the 10th inning of a game, once I looked up who Ryan Rolison was I would have guessed we were like...14-21.
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No, popped his hamstring as he finished his pitch. Did a couple awkward hops and crumbled between the mound and first. Was definitely in some pain, but I looked away for a few seconds, looked up and saw him on the ground slamming his nonthrowing fist into the ground and feared it something far worse.
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JJ Hardy?
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First tweet has the video, second tweet has the (to me) correct opinion
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Lodolo is coming back Friday, Greene is on the shelf for a while still, and we're missing by far their best healthy pitcher in Burns. But yeah, right now their rotation is a bit of a mess. They've actually gotten pretty unlucky metric wise, which probably explains their RD. Worst BABIP in the majors, xwOBA (9th in baseball) is 20 points higher than their wOBA (24th). The pitching is bad however you look at it though.
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oh baby
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That is just not the approach for that at bat.
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Better now than after the first inning. At least out here, storm came in a lot earlier than expected.
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Starting to look pretty questionable 20 miles west of Chicago so is might be generally doubtful.
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I don't really know why that's become this like, hard and fast baseline in terms of what it's going to take to acquire any good starting pitcher. The trade didn't happen. It was a negotiation. There's some middle ground between 'there was a rumor from writers that one team was demanding 2 top 75 prospects in a trade that didn't happen' and 'the best prospect traded for not-Mason Miller was a single A pitcher who some thought, maybe, would sneak onto top 100 lists at the end of the year'. Also what Plaid said above, which makes that very much an apples and oranges comparison.
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I mean, whatever. The point was clearly not to debate which of our blocked offensive prospects we would or would not trade for some hypothetical version of Skubal in a few months. It was that we should absolutely take a swing on a guy capable of being an elite playoff starter because our fourth starter has a 5.95 FIP at the moment and two of our top three starters were borderline unpitchable by September last year.
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Point taken. But a rehabbing Skubal with 2 months left on his contract probably costs you like...Kane Kepley. I take that shot every time.
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Is the alternative Jameson Taillon?
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Vibes really couldn’t be higher
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Nico back palencia back
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147
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137 wRC for Ian
